Well my friends, another summer has come to a close. Labor Day has come and tomorrow it will have gone the way of all other holidays of yesteryear. With the closing of summer, all the kids will be going back to school with their mothers not believing that they have advance to another grade and they have grown another 2 inches! One might say “ We just bought you jeans in March, I can’t believe that you have outgrown them.” I have heard my wife say that many times. With the closing of summer, people scurry around to get last minute items on the school list that their kids need.
I always hated the last day before school started because the realization was there that school will start tomorrow. Understand though, I did not dislike school. The Jerry Lewis Telethon that plays all day Labor Day long was always a final reminder to me that summer is officially over. I always had a friend over that day and we would play but they had to go home because school was the next day. I would always look forward to the weekends so I could go or have company at my house or stay with a friend on Friday night. Another sign in the finality of summer is the fact that the day are starting to get shorter and the night longer. With a hurried pace, kids will be going to school and getting assignments to take home and projects to work on. With the Labor Day weekend nearly finished, families will finish up their last minute vacations and will return home to get things in order for the new school season. But with the ending of summer, some things come anew.
I always anticipated the starting of a new Television Season as the ending of summer always marked a new season of new shows and the continuation of old TV series. Yes, the summer season of reruns is nearly over with the ending of summer. I can remember me eagerly awaiting the newest episode of Saturday Night Live or way back in the day, Miami Vice. With the ending of summer, the Big Networks will do Labor Day Marathons of the big TV hits from the last season so as to let everyone that did not get to see them the last year or missed a few episodes to catch up and get ready for the shocking conclusion that left you hanging in May of that year. Labor Day was always bitter sweet for me. It meant that most of my Friday Nights were tied up with Football Games and performing with the band and long trips to away games. They were hot trips as in Texas “winter” never really hit until December or January and the band uniforms were wool. It was also a time to make new friends that might have moved into the town and reunite with old friends that you lost touch with over the summer.
The end of summer also meant that it was time to get new clothes for the upcoming school year. I always love to go to the mall and get the latest fashion for men and getting a few new pairs of shoes. I was always a coat man and I love to be able to get a new one for the new year and I could not wait until it was cold enough to wear it! Yes my friends, the end of summer is and always will be a bitter sweet time for us all…
God Bless!
RMStringer
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Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood
over questions of reality and illusion.
I know this: if life is an illusion, then I
am no less an illusion, and being thus, the
illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I
love, I slay, and I am content.
(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)
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